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The stage was full of empty chairs on Thursday at "China in Two
Acts," part of the five-day PEN World Voices Festival of International
Literature in New York, which ended on Sunday.
A two-part program featured writer Zha Jianying
speaking for the first part followed by a panel discussion in the second. The
chairs, a nod to Nobel laureate Liu
Xiaobo's recent imprisonment, also signified the absence of Liao Yiwu,
author and fellow IndePENdent Chinese PEN Center board member. Liao was barred
from leaving the country, festival chair Salman Rushdie wrote
in a New York Times op-ed.